Pinus classification
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There are three main subgenera of Pinus
Pine
Pines are trees in the genus Pinus ,in the family Pinaceae. They make up the monotypic subfamily Pinoideae. There are about 115 species of pine, although different authorities accept between 105 and 125 species.-Etymology:...

, the subgenus Strobus (White pines or soft pines), the subgenus Ducampopinus (Pinyon
Pinyon pine
The pinyon pine group grows in the southwestern United States and in Mexico. The trees yield edible pinyon nuts, which were a staple of the Native Americans, and are still widely eaten...

, Bristlecone
Bristlecone pine
The bristlecone pines are a small group of pine trees that are thought to reach an age far greater than that of any other single living organism known, up to nearly 5,000 years....

 and Lacebark pines), and the subgenus Pinus (Typical pines, or yellow or hard pines) . This classification into the three subgenera is based on cone, seed and leaf characters:
  • Subgenus Pinus Scale with a sealing band. Umbo dorsal. Seedwings articulate. Two fibrovascular bundles per leaf.
  • Subgenus Strobus Scale without a sealing band. Umbo terminal. Seedwings adnate. One fibrovascular bundle per leaf.
  • Subgenus Ducampopinus Scale without a sealing band. Umbo dorsal. Seedwings articulate. One fibrovascular bundle per leaf.


Notice that in many respects, subgenus
Ducampopinus is intermediate between (and possibly ancestral to) the other two subgenera. In many classifications, it is combined into subgenus Strobus, but it could with equal justification have been included in subgenus Pinus (as was done in an early classification by the California
California
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n botanist J G Lemmon in 1888), yet it does not sit comfortably in either so is best treated as a third subgenus in its own right. In general, cone and cone scale and seed morphology and leaf fascicle and sheath morphology are emphasized and this seems to result in a classification that has subsections of pines that are understandable and usually readily recognized by their general appearance. Pines with one fibrovascular bundle per leaf, i.e. subgenera Strobus and Ducampopinus, are known as haploxylon pines, while pines with two fibrovascular bundles per leaf, i.e. subgenus Pinus, are called diploxylon pines. Diploxylon pines tend to have harder timber and more amounts of resin than the haploxylon pines.

Subgenus Pinus

Subgenus Pinus includes the yellow and hard pines.
  • Section Pinus is mostly in Europe, Asia, except for P. resinosa in northeast North America
    North America
    North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...

     and P. tropicalis in Cuba
    Cuba
    The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...

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    • Subsection Pinus
      • P. densata - Sikang Pine
        Pinus densata
        Pinus densata, commonly known as the Sikang Pine, is a species of conifer in the Pinaceae family.It is endemic-found only in China.-References:* Conifer Specialist Group 1998. . Downloaded on 10 July 2007....

      • P. densiflora - Japanese Red Pine
        Japanese Red Pine
        The Japanese Red Pine has a home range that includes Japan, Korea, northeastern China and the extreme southeast of Russia . This pine has become a popular ornamental and has several cultivars, but in the winter it becomes yellowish. The height of this tree is 20–35 m...

      • P. fragilissima - Pinus fragilissima
      • P. heldreichii - Bosnian Pine
        Bosnian Pine
        The Bosnian Pine is a species of pine native to Bosnia but is also found in the mountains of southeastern Europe, in southwestern Bulgaria, Bosnia, Albania, the Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, northern Greece , and locally in southern Italy ,...

      • P. henryi - Pinus henryi
        Pinus henryi
        Henry's Pine is a species of conifer in the Pinaceae family.It is endemic-found only in China.-Source:* Conifer Specialist Group 2000. . Downloaded on 10 July 2007....

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      • P. hwangshanensis - Huangshan Pine
        Huangshan Pine
        The Huangshan Pine is a pine native to the mountains of eastern China, in the provinces of Anhui, Fujian, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang; it is named after the Huangshan Mountains in Anhui, from where it was first described.It is an evergreen tree reaching 15-25 m in height, with a...

      • P. kesiya - Khasi Pine
        Khasi Pine
        The Khasi Pine, Pinus kesiya, is one of the most distributed pines in Asia. Its range extends south and east from the Khasi hills in the northeast Indian state of Meghalaya from where it got its name to northern Thailand, Burma, Laos, southernmost China, Vietnam and the Philippines...

      • P. luchuensis - Luchu Pine
        Pinus luchuensis
        Luchu Pine is a species of conifer in the Pinaceae family.It is found only in Japan Okinawa.It is threatened by habitat loss.-References:* Conifer Specialist Group 2000. . Downloaded on 10 July 2007....

      • P. massoniana - Masson's Pine
        Pinus massoniana
        Pinus massoniana is a species of pine, native to a wide area of central and southern China, including Hong Kong and Taiwan, and northern Vietnam, growing at low to moderate altitudes, mostly below 1,500 m but rarely up to 2,000 m altitude.- Description :It is an evergreen tree reaching 25-45 m in...

      • P. mugo - Mountain Pine
        Mountain Pine
        Pinus mugo, the Mountain Pine or Mugo Pine, is a high-altitude European pine, found in the Pyrenees, Alps, Erzgebirge, Carpathians, northern Apennines and Balkan Peninsula mountains from 1,000 m to 2,200 m, occasionally as low as 200 m in the north of the range in Germany and Poland, and as high...

      • P. nigra - European Black Pine
        European Black Pine
        Pinus nigra, the European Black Pine, is a moderately variable species of pine, occurring across southern Mediterranean Europe from Spain to the Crimea, in Asia Minor and on Cyprus, and in the high mountains of the Maghreb in North Africa....

      • P. resinosa - Red Pine
        Red Pine
        Pinus resinosa, commonly known as the red pine or Norway pine, is pine native to North America. The Red Pine occurs from Newfoundland west to Manitoba, and south to Pennsylvania, with several smaller, disjunct populations occurring in the Appalachian Mountains in Virginia and West Virginia, as well...

      • P. sylvestris - Scots Pine
        Scots Pine
        Pinus sylvestris, commonly known as the Scots Pine, is a species of pine native to Europe and Asia, ranging from Scotland, Ireland and Portugal in the west, east to eastern Siberia, south to the Caucasus Mountains, and as far north as well inside the Arctic Circle in Scandinavia...

      • P. tabuliformis - Chinese Red Pine
        Chinese Red Pine
        The Chinese Red Pine Pinus tabuliformis is a pine native to northern China from Liaoning west to Inner Mongolia and Gansu, and south to Shandong, Henan and Shaanxi, and also northern Korea...

      • P. taiwanensis - Taiwan Red Pine
        Pinus taiwanensis
        Taiwan Red Pine is a species of conifer in the Pinaceae family.It is found only in Taiwan.-References:* Conifer Specialist Group 1998. . Downloaded on 10 July 2007....

      • P. thunbergii - Japanese Black Pine
        Pinus thunbergii
        Pinus thunbergii is a pine native to coastal areas of Japan and South Korea.- Description :Japanese Black Pine can reach the height of 40 m, but rarely achieves this size outside its natural range...

      • P. tropicalis - Tropical Pine
        Tropical Pine
        Pinus tropicalis, the Tropical Pine, is a pine tree endemic to the western highlands of the island of Cuba.-References:*...

      • P. yunnanensis - Yunnan Pine
        Pinus yunnanensis
        Yunnan Pine is a species of conifer in the Pinaceae family.It is found only in China .-References:* Conifer Specialist Group 1998. . Downloaded on 10 July 2007....

  • Section Pinea - Mediterranean
    Mediterranean Basin
    In biogeography, the Mediterranean Basin refers to the lands around the Mediterranean Sea that have a Mediterranean climate, with mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers, which supports characteristic Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub vegetation...

     pines
    • Subsection Pineae
      • P. pinea - Stone Pine
        Stone Pine
        The Stone Pine , is also called Italian Stone Pine, or Umbrella Pine , and Parasol Pine. It is in the pine family Pinaceae and occasionally listed under the invalid name Pinus sativa. The tree is native to the Mediterranean region...

    • Subsection Pinaster
      • P. brutia - Turkish Pine
        Turkish Pine
        Pinus brutia, the Turkish pine, is a pine native to the eastern Mediterranean region. The bulk of its range is in Turkey, but it also extends to the East Aegean Islands of Greece, the Crimea, Iran, Georgia, Azerbaijan, northern Iraq, western Syria, Lebanon, and Cyprus...

      • P. canariensis - Canary Island Pine
      • P. halepensis - Aleppo Pine
      • P. latteri - Tenasserim Pine
        Tenasserim Pine
        The Tenasserim Pine, Pinus latteri, is a pine native to southeast Asia, in the mountains of southeastern Burma, northern Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and on the Chinese island of Hainan....

      • P. merkusii - Sumatran Pine
        Sumatran Pine
        Pinus merkusii, the Sumatran Pine, is a pine native to the Malesia region of southeast Asia, mainly in Indonesia in the mountains of northern Sumatra, and with two outlying populations in central Sumatra on Mount Kerinci and Mount Talang, and in the Philippines on Mindoro and in the Zambales...

      • P. pinaster - Maritime Pine
        Maritime Pine
        Pinus pinaster, the Maritime Pine, is a pine native to the western and southwestern Mediterranean region. The pejorative name 'pinaster' is derived from pinus + aster, translating as 'a poor imitation of a pine' Pinus pinaster, the Maritime Pine, is a pine native to the western and southwestern...

      • P. roxburghii - Chir Pine
        Chir Pine
        The Chir Pine, Pinus roxburghii, named after William Roxburgh, is a pine native to the Himalaya.The range extends from northern Pakistan , across northern India and Nepal to Bhutan.It generally occurs at lower altitudes than other pines in the Himalaya, from...

  • Section Trifoliae - American hard pines
    • Subsection Leiophyllae - Mexico, southwestern United States
      • P. leiophylla - Chihuahua Pine
        Chihuahua Pine
        The Chihuahua Pine is a tree, in Mexico is also called Tlacocote and ocote chino with a range primarily in Mexico with a small extension into the United States in southeast Arizona and southwest New Mexico. The Mexican range extends along the Sierra Madre Occidental and Sierra Madre del Sur from...

      • P. lumholtzii - Lumholtz's Pine
        Pinus lumholtzii
        Pinus lumholtzii, the Lumholtz' Pine or Pino triste , is a species of conifer in the Pinaceae family. It is endemic to northeastern Mexico....

    • Subsection Australes - North America, Central America, Caribbean
      • P. caribaea - Caribbean Pine
        Caribbean Pine
        The Caribbean Pine, Pinus caribaea, is a hard pine native to Central America, Cuba, Jamaica, the Bahamas, and the Turks and Caicos Islands. It inhabits tropical and subtropical coniferous forests, which include both lowland savannas and montane forests...

      • P. clausa - Sand Pine
      • P. cubensis - Cuban Pine
        Cuban Pine
        The Cuban Pine is a pine endemic to the eastern highlands of the island of Cuba.The closely related Hispaniolan Pine , native to the neighboring island of Hispaniola, is treated as synonymous by some botanists....

      • P. echinata - Shortleaf Pine
      • P. elliottii - Slash Pine
      • P. glabra - Spruce Pine
      • P. occidentalis - Hispaniolan Pine
        Hispaniolan Pine
        The Hispaniolan Pine is a pine endemic to the island of Hispaniola, where it is the predominant species in the Hispaniolan pine forests of Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

      • P. palustris - Longleaf Pine
      • P. pungens - Table Mountain Pine
        Table Mountain Pine
        Pinus pungens, the Table Mountain Pine, is a small pine native to the Appalachian Mountains in the United States. Table Mountain Pine, Pinus pungens, is also called Hickory Pine or Mountain Pine, though the latter name usually refers to the European species Mountain Pine - Pinus...

      • P. rigida - Pitch Pine
        Pitch Pine
        The Pitch Pine, Pinus rigida, is a small-to-medium sized pine, native to eastern North America. This species occasionally hybridizes with other pine species such as Loblolly Pine , Shortleaf Pine , and Pond Pine The Pitch Pine, Pinus rigida, is a small-to-medium sized (6-30 meters or 20-100 feet)...

      • P. serotina - Pond Pine
      • P. taeda - Loblolly Pine
      • P. virginiana - Virginia Pine
    • Subsection Contortae - North America
      • P. banksiana - Jack Pine
        Jack Pine
        Jack pine is a North American pine with its native range in Canada east of the Rocky Mountains from Northwest Territories to Nova Scotia, and the northeast of the United States from Minnesota to Maine, with the southernmost part of the range just into northwest Indiana...

      • P. contorta - Lodgepole Pine
        Lodgepole Pine
        Lodgepole Pine, Pinus contorta, also known as Shore Pine, is a common tree in western North America. Like all pines, it is evergreen.-Subspecies:...

      • P. matthewsii - Pinus matthewsii
        Pinus matthewsii
        Pinus matthewsii is an extinct species of conifer in the Pine family. The species is solely known from the Pliocene sediments exposed at Ch’ijee’s Bluff on the Porcupine River near Old Crow, Yukon, Canada.-Type locality:...

         - Pliocene, Yukon Territory, Canada
    • Subsection Oocarpae - Central America, Mexico, western United States.
      • P. attenuata - Knobcone Pine
        Knobcone Pine
        The Knobcone Pine, Pinus attenuata, is a tree that grows in mild climates on poor soils. It ranges from the mountains of southern Oregon to Baja California with the greatest concentration in northern California and the Oregon-California border....

      • †P. foisyi - Pinus foisyi extinct
      • P. greggii - Gregg's Pine
        Pinus greggii
        Pinus greggii, or Gregg's pine, is a small to medium high pine tree native to eastern Mexico, found in two distinct regions. It has an open crown and long and slender branches. The needles are in bundles of three with an average length of 11 cm. The cones are clustered in groups of 5 – 10....

      • P. herrerae - Herrera's Pine
        Pinus herrerae
        Herrera's Pine is a species of conifer in the Pinaceae family.It is found only in Mexico.-References:* Conifer Specialist Group 1998. . Downloaded on 10 July 2007....

      • P. jaliscana - Jalisco Pine
        Pinus jaliscana
        Jalisco Pine is a species of conifer in the Pinaceae family.It is found only in Mexico.It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:* Conifer Specialist Group 1998. . Downloaded on 10 July 2007....

      • P. lawsonii - Lawson's Pine
        Pinus lawsonii
        Lawson's Pine is a species of conifer in the Pinaceae family.It is found only in Mexico.-References:* Conifer Specialist Group 1998. . Downloaded on 10 July 2007....

      • P. muricata - Bishop Pine
        Bishop Pine
        The Bishop Pine, Pinus muricata, is a pine with a very restricted range: mostly in the U.S. state of California, including several offshore Channel Islands, and a few locations in Baja California, Mexico...

      • P. oocarpa - Egg-cone Pine
        Pinus oocarpa
        Pinus oocarpa is a species of pine tree native to Mexico and Central America. It is the national tree of Honduras, where it is known as Ocote. Common names include Pino Amarillo, Pino Avellano, Mexican Yellow Pine, and Hazelnut Pine...

      • P. patula - Patula Pine
        Pinus patula
        Patula pine, pino patula, pinus patula is a tree native to the highlands of Mexico. It grows from 24° to 18° North latitude and 1800 to 2700 m above sea level. 30 m tall...

      • P. praetermissa - McVaugh's Pine
        Pinus praetermissa
        Pinus praetermissa, commonly known as McVaugh's Pine, is a species of conifer in the Pinaceae family.It is found only in Mexico.-References:* Conifer Specialist Group 1998. . Downloaded on 10 July 2007....

      • P. pringlei - Pringle's Pine
        Pinus pringlei
        Pinus pringlei, commonly known as Pringle's Pine, is a species of conifer in the Pinaceae family.It is found only in Mexico.-References:* Conifer Specialist Group 1998. . Downloaded on 10 July 2007....

      • P. radiata - Monterey Pine
      • P. tecunumanii - Tecun Uman Pine
        Pinus tecunumanii
        Pinus tecunumanii is a timber tree native to Mexico and Central America. It grows from the highlands of Chiapas and Oaxaca to Northern Nicaragua . It occurs in two separated populations in their native habitats...

      • P. teocote - Ocote Pine
        Pinus teocote
        Pinus teocote is a species of conifer in the Pinaceae family.It is found only in Mexico. 20-30 m tall and 75 cm diameter. Straight trunk and dense top. It grows at 1500-3200 mm...

    • Subsection Ponderosae - Central America, Mexico, western United States, southwest Canada.
      • P. apulcensis - Apulco Pine
      • P. arizonica - Arizona Pine
        Arizona Pine
        Pinus arizonica, commonly known as the Arizona pine, is a medium-sized pine in northern Mexico, southeast Arizona, southwest New Mexico, and western Texas in the United States. It is a tree growing to 25-35 m tall, with a trunk diameter of up . The needles are in bundles of 3, 4, or 5, with...

      • P. cooperi - Cooper's Pine
        Pinus cooperi
        Pinus cooperi, sometimes called Cooper's pine or Cooper pine, is a medium-sized pine which is endemic to Mexico....

      • P. coulteri - Coulter Pine
        Coulter Pine
        The Coulter Pine or Big-cone Pine is a native of the coastal mountains of southern California and northern Baja California . Isolated groves are found as far north as the San Francisco Bay Area in Mt. Diablo State Park and Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve...

      • P. devoniana - Michoacan Pine
        Pinus devoniana
        Pinus devoniana is a species of conifer in the Pinaceae family.It is found in Mexico - from S. Sinaloa to Chiapas - and Guatemala in montane, relatively open pine or pine-oak forests at altitudes from 900 to 2500 m....

      • P. durangensis - Durango Pine
        Durango Pine
        Durango Pine is a pine native to the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains of northwestern Mexico, from Chihuahua and Sonora south through Durango and Jalisco to Michoacán. It is a moderately high altitude species, growing at 1500–2800 m....

      • P. engelmannii - Apache Pine
      • P. hartwegii - Hartweg's Pine
        Hartweg's Pine
        Hartweg's Pine, Pinus hartwegii; syn. P. rudis, P. donnell-smithii) is a pine native to the mountains of Mexico and Central America east to Honduras. It is a very high altitude species, growing at altitudes of 2500-4300 m, and forms the alpine tree line on most of Mexico's higher mountains. It is...

      • P. jeffreyi - Jeffrey Pine
        Jeffrey Pine
        The Jeffrey Pine, Pinus jeffreyi, named in honor of its botanist documenter John Jeffrey, is a North American pine related to Ponderosa Pine.-Distribution and habitat:...

      • P. johndayensis - Pinus johndayensis - Oligocene
      • P. maximinoi - Thinleaf Pine
        Pinus maximinoi
        Pinus maximinoi, commonly known as Thinleaf Pine, is a species of conifer in the Pinaceae family.It is found in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico at elevations of . P. maximinoi reaches a height of and has smooth bark when young....

      • P. montezumae - Montezuma Pine
        Pinus montezumae
        Pinus montezumae, known as the Montezuma Pine, is a species of conifer in the Pinaceae family.It is native to Mexico and Central America, where it is known as Ocote. The tree grows about 35 m high and 80 cm in diameter; occasionally it may reach a height of 40 m and diameter of...

      • P. ponderosa - Ponderosa Pine
      • P. pseudostrobus - Smooth-bark Mexican Pine
        Pinus pseudostrobus
        Smooth-bark Mexican Pine , distinctive names in Spanish, tree endemic to Mexico.It is 8 to 25 m tall, dense and round top, the bark is brown and fissured and smooth when young. It grows between 1300-3250 m. From 26° to 15° north latitude, from Sinaloa, Mexico to Honduras. It occurs within a...

      • P. sabiniana - Gray Pine
        Gray Pine
        Pinus sabiniana , with the common names gray pine, California foothill pine, and the more historically and internationally used digger pine, is a pine endemic to California in the United States...

      • P. torreyana - Torrey Pine
        Torrey Pine
        The Torrey Pine, Pinus torreyana, is the rarest pine species in the United States, an endangered species growing only in San Diego County and on one of the Channel Islands, endemic to the coastal sage and chaparral ecoregion in the U.S...


Subgenus Strobus

Subgenus Strobus includes the white and soft pines.
  • Section Quinquefoliae (section Strobus): white pines
    • Subsection Strobi: North America, Central America, Europe and Asia
      • P. amamiana - Yakushima White Pine
      • P. armandii - Chinese White Pine
        Chinese White Pine
        The Chinese White Pine is a species of pine native to China, occurring from southern Shanxi west to southern Gansu and south to Yunnan, with outlying populations in Anhui and Taiwan; it also extends a short distance into northern Myanmar. It grows at 1,000-3,300 m altitude, with the lower...

      • P. ayacahuite - Mexican White Pine
        Mexican White Pine
        Mexican White Pine, Pinus ayacahuite, the common name in Spanish is ayacahuite; family Pinaceae) is a species of pine native to the mountains of southern Mexico and western Central America, in the Sierra Madre del Sur and the eastern end of the Eje Volcánico Transversal, between 14° and 21°N...

      • P. bhutanica - Bhutan White Pine
      • P. chiapensis  - Chiapas Pine
        Pinus chiapensis
        Tree in the conifers. Its natural habitat is in Chiapas, Mexico and Guatemala. It is known as Chiapas pine, in Spanish as Pino de chiapas or Acalocote. Found from 900 up to 1500 m. Pinus chiapensis is a pine native from southern Mexico and neighboring parts of Guatemala.Introduced in Colombia,...

      • P. dabeshanensis - Dabieshan Pine
      • P. dalatensis - Vietnamese White Pine
        Vietnamese White Pine
        The Vietnamese White Pine, Pinus dalatensis, is a species of pine endemic to Vietnam, where it grows in the mountains of the central and south-central parts of the country at 1,400-2,300 m altitude.-Description:...

      • P. eremitana - North Vietnamese White Pine 
      • P. fenzeliana - Hainan White Pine
        Hainan White Pine
        The Hainan White Pine or Fenzel's Pine, Pinus fenzeliana, is a tree endemic to the island of Hainan off southern China. This pine reaches heights of 20 m with a trunk 1m in diameter....

      • P. flexilis - Limber Pine
        Limber Pine
        The Limber Pine, Pinus flexilis, is a species of pine tree-the family Pinaceae that occurs in the mountains of the Western United States, Mexico, and Canada. It is also called Southwestern White Pine and Rocky Mountain White Pine...

      • P. lambertiana - Sugar Pine
        Sugar Pine
        Pinus lambertiana, commonly known as the sugar pine or sugar cone pine, is the tallest and most massive pine, with the longest cones of any conifer...

      • P. morrisonicola - Taiwan White Pine
        Pinus morrisonicola
        Taiwan White Pine, Pinus morrisonicola, is a species of conifer in the Pinaceae family, in Asia.-References:* Conifer Specialist Group 1998. . Downloaded on 10 July 2007....

      • P. monticola - Western White Pine
        Western White Pine
        Western White Pine, Pinus monticola in the family Pinaceae, is a species of pine that occurs in the mountains of the western United States and Canada, specifically the Sierra Nevada, the Cascade Range, the Coast Range, and the northern Rocky Mountains. The tree extends down to sea level in many...

      • P. orthophylla - Pinus orthophylla
      • P. parviflora - Japanese White Pine
        Japanese White Pine
        The Japanese White Pine is a pine in the white pine group, Pinus subgenus Strobus, native to Japan. It is also known as the Japanese Five Needle Pine ....

      • P. peuce - Macedonian Pine
      • P. reflexa - Southwestern White Pine — see Limber Pine
        Limber Pine
        The Limber Pine, Pinus flexilis, is a species of pine tree-the family Pinaceae that occurs in the mountains of the Western United States, Mexico, and Canada. It is also called Southwestern White Pine and Rocky Mountain White Pine...

      • P. strobiformis - Chihuahua White Pine
        Chihuahua White Pine
        The Chihuahua White Pine, Pinus strobiformis, family Pinaceae, is a species of pine tree that occurs in the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains of Northern Mexico, from a short distance south of the United States border south through Chihuahua and Durango to Jalisco.It is typically a high-elevation...

      • P. strobus - Eastern White Pine
        Eastern White Pine
        Pinus strobus, commonly known as the eastern white pine, is a large pine native to eastern North America, occurring from Newfoundland west to Minnesota and southeastern Manitoba, and south along the Appalachian Mountains to the northern edge of Georgia.It is occasionally known as simply white pine,...

      • P. stylesii - Pinus stylesii
      • P. wallichiana - Blue Pine
      • P. wangii - Guangdong White Pine
        Pinus wangii
        Pinus wangii, the Guangdong White Pine, is a species of conifer in the Pinaceae family.It is found in China and Vietnam.It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:* Conifer Specialist Group 1998. . Downloaded on 10 July 2007....

    • Subsection Cembrae: Europe, northern Asia, western North America
      • P. albicaulis - Whitebark Pine
        Whitebark Pine
        Pinus albicaulis, known commonly as Whitebark Pine, Pitch Pine, Scrub Pine, and Creeping Pine occurs in the mountains of the Western United States and Canada, specifically the subalpine areas of the Sierra Nevada, the Cascade Range, the Pacific Coast Ranges, and the northern Rocky Mountains –...

      • P. cembra - Swiss Pine
        Swiss Pine
        The Swiss Pine or Arolla Pine, Pinus cembra, is a species of pine tree that occurs in the Alps and Carpathian Mountains of central Europe, in Poland , Switzerland, France, Italy, Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Slovakia, Ukraine and Romania. It typically grows at to altitude. It often reaches the...

      • P. koraiensis - Korean Pine
      • P. sibirica - Siberian Pine
        Siberian Pine
        The Siberian Pine, Pinus sibirica, in the family Pinaceae is a species of pine tree that occurs in Siberia from 58°E in the Ural Mountains east to 126°E in the Stanovoy Range in southern Sakha Republic, and from Igarka at 68°N in the lower Yenisei valley, south to 45°N in central...

      • P. pumila - Siberian Dwarf Pine
        Siberian Dwarf Pine
        Pinus pumila is a native to northeastern Asia, including the islands of Japan. This shrubby pine ranges from 1–3 m in height, exceptionally up to 5 m, but may have individual branches that extend farther along the ground in length...


Subgenus Ducampopinus

Subgenus Ducampopinus includes the Pinyon, Lacebark and Foxtail Pines.
  • Section Parrya
    • Subsection Nelsonianae - northeastern Mexico
      • P. nelsonii - Nelson's Pinyon
        Pinus nelsonii
        Pinus nelsonii , is a species of pine native to the mountains of northeastern Mexico, in Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí and Tamaulipas at 1,800–3,200 m altitude. It has very singular characteristics and is not closely related to any other pines in either morphology or genetics...

    • Subsection Krempfianae - Vietnam
      • P. krempfii Krempf's Pine
        Krempf's Pine
        Krempf's Pine is a rare species of pine endemic to the central highlands of Vietnam in the Da Lat–Nha Trang area. It is unusual in that it has flat needles. Because of this anomaly, it is put in its own subsection, the Krempfianae....

    • Subsection Gerardianae - Lacebark pines, Central Asia
      • P. bungeana - Lacebark Pine
        Pinus bungeana
        Pinus bungeana is a pine tree native to northeastern and central China. It is a slow-growing tree to 15-25 m tall...

      • P. gerardiana - Chilgoza Pine
      • P. squamata - Qiaojia Pine
        Qiaojia Pine
        Qiaojia Pine, Pinus squamata, zh: 巧家五针松) is a critically endangered pine native to a single locality consisting of about 20 trees in northeast Yunnan, China, at about 2200 m elevation....

    • Subsection Rzedowskianae - big-cone pinyons, Mexico
      • P. maximartinezii - Big-cone Pinyon
        Big-cone Pinyon
        Big-cone Pinyon is a pine in the pinyon pine group, native to central Mexico. The range is highly localised, confined to a small area of the southern Sierra Madre Occidental in southern Zacatecas...

      • P. pinceana - Weeping Pinyon
        Pinus pinceana
        Weeping Pinyon is a species of conifer in the Pinaceae family.It is found only in Mexico.It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:* Conifer Specialist Group 1998. . Downloaded on 10 July 2007....

      • P. rzedowskii - Rzedowski's Pinyon
        Pinus rzedowskii
        Pinus rzedowskii, commonly known as Rzedowski's Pine, is a species of conifer in the Pinaceae family.It is found only in Mexico.It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:* Conifer Specialist Group 1998. . Downloaded on 10 July 2007....

    • Subsection Cembroides - Pinyons (Piñons), Mexico, southwest United States
      • P. cembroides - Mexican Pinyon
        Mexican Pinyon
        The Mexican Pinyon ' is a pine in the pinyon pine group, native to western North America.-Distribution:The range extends from westernmost Texas, United States , south through much of Mexico, occurring widely along the Sierra Madre Oriental and Sierra Madre Occidental ranges, and more rarely in the...

      • P. culminicola - Potosi Pinyon
      • P. discolor - Border Pinyon
      • P. edulis - Colorado Pinyon
        Colorado Pinyon
        The Colorado Pinyon, Two-needle Pinyon, or Piñon Pine, ', is a pine in the pinyon pine group whose ancestor was a member of the Madro-Tertiary Flora and is native to the United States....

      • P. johannis - Johann's Pinyon
        Johann's Pinyon
        Pinus johannis, the Johann's Pinyon, is a pine in the pinyon pine group, native to North America. The range extends from southeast Arizona and southwest New Mexico, United States, south in Mexico along the Sierra Madre Occidental and the Sierra Madre Oriental to southern Zacatecas and San Luis Potosí...

      • P. monophylla - Single-leaf Pinyon
        Single-leaf Pinyon
        The Single-leaf Pinyon, ', is a pine in the pinyon pine group, native to the United States and northwest Mexico. The range is in southernmost Idaho, western Utah, Arizona, southwest New Mexico, Nevada, eastern and southern California and northern Baja California.It occurs at moderate altitudes from...

      • P. orizabensis - Orizaba Pinyon
        Orizaba Pinyon
        The Orizaba Pinyon, Pinus orizabensis, is a pine in the pinyon pine group, endemic to central Mexico. It is considered also as a sub-species of Pinus cembroides which is classified as Pinus cembroides orizabensis...

      • P. quadrifolia - Parry Pinyon
        Parry Pinyon
        Pinus quadrifolia, the Parry Pinyon, is a pine in the pinyon pine group, native to southernmost California in the United States and northern Baja California in Mexico, from 33° 30' N south to 30° 30' N. It occurs at moderate altitudes from to , rarely as low as and as high as...

      • P. remota - Texas Pinyon or Papershell Pinyon
    • Subsection Balfourianae - Foxtail pines, southwest United States
      • P. aristata - Rocky Mountains Bristlecone Pine
      • P. balfouriana - Foxtail Pine
        Foxtail Pine
        The Foxtail Pine is a rare pine that is endemic to California, United States, where it is found in two areas with a separate subspecies in each, the typical subsp. balfouriana in the Klamath Mountains, and subsp. austrina in the southern Sierra Nevada.-Description:Foxtail Pine is a tree to tall,...

      • P. longaeva - Great Basin Bristlecone Pine


Incertae sedis

Species which are not placed in a subgenus at this time.
  • P. peregrinus - Pinus peregrinus
    Pinus peregrinus
    Pinus peregrinus is an extinct species of pine in the Pinaceae family known from Clarkforkian age Paleocene fossils found in western North Dakota, USA....

    - Middle Eocene, Golden Valley Formation, North Dakota
    North Dakota
    North Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States of America, along the Canadian border. The state is bordered by Canada to the north, Minnesota to the east, South Dakota to the south and Montana to the west. North Dakota is the 19th-largest state by area in the U.S....

    , USA

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